Socialist Workers Party leaders James P. Cannon and Albert Goldman, acting here as Cannon’s lawyer, in August, 1941 during the trial in St. Paul, Minnesota following Cannon’s indictment under the newly passed Smith Act for advocating and conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government. Twenty-nine activists were indicted, including much of the leadership of Teamster Local #544. Five later had charges dismissed, five were acquitted in the trial, and eighteen found guilty. Grant Dunne, accused of the famous Dunne Brothers, took his life before the trial. After two years of losing appeals, the eighteen found guilty, including the comrades pictured here, were imprisoned, and served abbreviated sentences in the changed political climate of the war of six to eighteen months.